College Rugby and Other College Sports
PPL Park has hosted the Collegiate Rugby Championship every June since 2011. The Collegiate Rugby Championship is the highest profile college rugby competition in the United States, and is broadcast live on NBC every year. Over 17,800 fans came out to PPL Park to watch the 2011 tournament.
The first college football game played at PPL Park was the Battle of the Blue on November 19, 2011, in which Delaware beat Villanova to earn the trophy for the first time.
PPL Park hosted two quarterfinal matches in the 2012 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship .
The United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, and the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, announced that their annual men's soccer rivalry will be held in PPL Park for 2012 and 2013. The 2012 meeting on September 30 will mark the just the third time in the 75-year history of the soccer rivalry that the schools meet at a netural location; and the first regular season neutral site meeting, with the previous two occurring in the NCAA tournament. Philadelphia is the traditional home of the classic football rivalry and is halfway between the two schools.
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